Offshore wind planning and environmental impact

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An introduction to offshore wind for the undergraduate course on renewable energy law at Aarhus University, Denmark

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• Policy• Practice• Energy• Environment

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Policy Practice

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Land use

Tourism

Oil & Gas

Coastal defence

Ports & navigation

Military activities

Culture

Conservation

Dredging & disposal

Submarine cables

Fishing

Renewable energy

Marine recreation

Mineral extraction

Mariculture

Why maritime planning?

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DefinitionMarine Spatial Planning

A framework for consistent and integrated decision-making; a tool to support IMP

It analyses and allocates spatial and temporal distribution of human activities

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“The Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the application of the ecosystem approach to the management of human activities”

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“Good Environmental

Status”

“Descriptors”

Biodiversity

Resource exploitation

pollution

GES criteria

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:232:0014:0024:EN:PDF

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Policy Practice

Which is leading?

“Pure power, EWEA, 2009”; NREAPs

WindSpeed.eu

Spatial planning of offshore wind farms: A windfall to marine environmental protection? Punt et al, 2009https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/199644/original/Sam_Swenson_2010.pdf

Cumulative impact

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Environment

1. Policy developing; lags practice2. Few problems with offshore wind on

case-by-case basis3. Cumulative impact uncertain

David Owain ClubbRenewable energy project manager

david.clubb@eea.europa.eu

“Offshore wind – policy, practice, environment, energy”12th October 2011

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